Condiment compound



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAVUS HOLLAND, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CONDIMENT COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 228,898, dated June 15, 1880. Application filed January 3, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAVUS HOLLAND, M. D., of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful compound to be used as a condiment, which compound is fully described in the following specification.

This invention relates to that class of compounds used in condiments to preserve and make them agreeable to the taste, and at the same time is intended to prevent thosedisagreeable effects which strong acids ordinarily used in pickles have upon the stomach.

To prepare my improved compound, take of the tincture of ginger and capsicum each one ounce, to which'is added one ounce of common fine salt; of the oil of cloves, cassia, mace, pimento, each six drops oil of capsicum, three drops. Dissolve the above essential oils in a sufficient quantity of alcohol to cut them.

Then take one quart of pure wine or cider vinegar and two fluid ounces of glycerine and mix them together and add to the preparation who partake of condiments so pickled or preserved in it, because the glycerine neutralizes and softens the acetic or other acid in the vinegar hence the acid has lost its power to do harm to persons who have a sensitive mucous lining of the stomach.

I am aware that glycerine, acids, and common salt, in suitable proportions, have been heretofore combined in compounds intended for use in canning and preserving meats, poul try, 850.; but this I do not claim.

My condiment compound is not only useful for pickling and preserving, but, containing, as it does, in addition to the ordinary ingredients of such compounds, certain aromatics and essential oils, is thereby rendered more palatable, and especially suitable for table use.

What 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improved condiment .compound herein described, consisting of pure wine or cider vinegar, the tinctures of ginger and capsicum, fine table'salt, essential oils, and glycerine, in about the proportions set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I Gr. HOLLAND, M. D. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

G. W. M. SMITH, JAMES D. KING. 

